killed three people including an eight year old boy. a razor thin election victory spock's anger in venezuela after almost half of the nation votes against the chavez's heir apparent but nicolas maduro still won the presidency. and the defiance of hunger strikers in guantanamo bay grows with the u.s. saying forty five starving themselves lawyers insist it's more than three times that number. thank you for joining us here on our. live in moscow with you a world wide news an eight year old boy was among three people killed by twin blasts which rocked the boston marathon finish line more than one hundred forty others in hospital having lost their limbs is the worst domestic attack in the u.s.

since nine eleven at the scene as. the state of massachusetts holiday turns into a tragedy in the heart of boston just several minutes before three pm local time at the finishing line of the boston marathon two explosions seconds apart from each other kill at least three people according to witnesses who were on the ground during the explosions the situation was extremely chaotic terrifying body parts were seen flying about blood everywhere i was there with my fist or she had left work early and she when the first bomb went off there was just a silence that went over the crowd and then i immediately screamed started happening and she grabbed my hand and i just start running in terms of the measures that local officials had put in place we do know that a no fly zone was imposed over boston for several hours earlier today now flights are allowed back into the city again so phone service was shut off for several

hours also in fear that further explosions more remote to donations could take place and of course several hotels in the area including the one behind me people were evacuated from those hotels the locals were advised to stay home and not come out into public spaces we do know of course that security is going to be heightened in the hours and days to come here in boston and it has also been beefed up in major cities throughout the united states including of course new york city where two successful terror attacks so-called successful terror attacks had taken place and sixteen plots of verted in the last years and in terms of what's going on in boston right now we do know the investigation is ongoing the f.b.i. is right now in charge of this case that we're being told that police here on the ground are looking into surveillance photo of a man carrying two backpacks but no people have been taken into custody as of yet

and one of the major questions that remains to be answered is whether or not this attack was a domestic or foreign one and. boston massachusetts we go to the number of those were injured during the twin bomb blasts are now up to one hundred fifty two in the meantime police and the f.b.i. have a house in connection with the bombings with many more people being questioned at this point no one's claimed responsibility for the attack of the white house was promised the perpetrators will be brought to justice if he is more important oil has details u.s. president barack obama said that the u.s. does not yet have all the answers as to who was behind the attack and why they did this but obama said the u.s. will find out who did it and will hold him accountable he would not go into detail he said an investigation is ongoing and that. u.s. federal officials will be helping out boston in any way that city needs as they

continue searching for clues as to what caused two to the bombings their work proximately twenty seven thousand people participating in the boston marathon and tens of thousands on the streets watching the event and also securing the perimeter ironically there were so many police officers on the scene so many a mass workers this explosion went off and just about ten seconds later a second explosion went off there is some horrific images out there of some of the victims some of whom lost limbs what history has shown is that if the u.s. is attacked washington. and it has retaliated over the course of more than a decade we did have that patriot act in the aftermath of the september eleventh attacks that department of homeland security was created then the controversial drone program was implemented under the ministration of florida w. bush and it was carried out double down on by president barack obama but what many

would argue is that even with all those different measures put in place through war through surf. maylands that it still doesn't prevent horrific attacks like the one that was a scene unfolding in boston. mia nine eleven attacks in the united states heralded an error of heightened security measures some of which were severely criticized by human rights groups and. iraqi war veteran he actually fears there were spawns to the failure of preventing another domestic attack even with a ph or an act even with a n d a even with the surveillance states that it's been going on even with with that with all the wars going on you know in enough gas and in yemen and in the sand and all the true program is attacked you know happen you know i'm not going to speculate on on who did what and whether or not this you know this was caused by a foreign national or u.s.

or just possibly domestic terrorist one thing is for sure that the government the united states government will use this as an excuse to continue and to try on the trajectory of even more surveillance and even law our security of even more i mean what's next t.s.a. at at every marathon t.s.a. in every street foreigner and that's going to be the solutions and that's going to be put forward for the past that basically past decade you know when you when you call some on that terrorist you're basically saying that that what the government does to terrorists or people accused of terror since you're ok with that your opinion with them being definitely didn't stand being put in and get no you're ok with them being spying on you are you are ok with them being assassinated because that then is what peter does government is doing to people suspect the end of terrorism. and iraq was meanwhile seen to

a string of attacks which i become known name known as me as a black monday at least fifty five lives were lost there three hundred more injured a man will auction writers an editor in chief of the german and news magazines what he says out of those are deadly blasts just another example of how civilians are suffering from both terrorism and the war on terror. the general problem is our resume it's well this war on terrorism is on the back of civilians it's not what we know it's a typical board it's not that armies make a war against each other it's always put on civilians it's about armies it was against. we see it like the bombing also we. see billion even if we see it as well countries like obvious and also iraq where. the war on terror also has the billions we had that several of. the six people were killed.

there we don't have the media coverage and the interest on it and we have it right now in boston this is a place where this is the sort of barbarism we should reach for off terrorists and the bore and or on terrorism. but from moscow this is our city following the closest vote in almost half a century which so you go chavez's chosen successor elected as president but as well is at risk of sliding into political chaos and then half the population doesn't want nicolas maduro as its leader let's go live now to our taste tester austerely in caracas following the mood that it's also good to see you today are crowds of protesting against madrid a while monday any more such show is expected today do you think. well the opposition has been

a staunchly refusing to accept the results and he has indeed the called for people to come out and to dismiss and protests and also is when the election committee was confirming. you had people coming out of the pots and pans that's what the opposition wanted to do yesterday and come out into the street make a lot of noise essentially showing that they do not accept the results so i want to . now it's still a bit calm but according to the opposition that they're not going to stop until there is a recount of the votes that have been cast for the presidential elections again refusing to accept the results. quite so when they're saying they will not be a recount but when it comes to be opposition what are the demands. from the very start of the announcer results they said that this is irreversible and i have spoken to some of the of service they said that the process was was very smooth and they didn't see any problem with it but should an audit to actually

happen it will it could be done quite easily but that seems unlikely as the election committee is saying that really the results are irreversible it's final and we may not actually see a recount but the opposition is making a lot of noise so it's interesting to see what is going to happen here and in terms of the protests i just wanted to add that yesterday a bullet was absorb it small there were incidents of the protesters throwing stones at the police and use of tear gas so if this does continue we'll see how it will translate politically into the decisions they will be making in terms of coming up putting pressure on the electoral committee to actually come up with an audit but so far it seems that the decision is final and it's a reversible we know when it was my daughter was given the blessing of the lady do you think that's still helpful given all the challenges he faces. well the fact that there was such a narrow margin this just shows you that he's starting this presidency off with a very weak mandate you have essentially almost half of the electorate who who who is not for him and therefore he has

a lot of challenges to face not least of which is filling the shoes of chavez and he doesn't have that charisma to calm people down when it comes to addressing the pressing problems he also has that issue of trying to keep the government in line on the same page moving forward and one other thing we know that historically support of the military is very very essential here even as chavez was himself a military man believed does not have so this is for him to prove his ability to essentially get everybody on the same page is going to be proving it's going to prove to be a very very difficult task as far as the people are concerned i mean granted that during his time poverty levels had gone down there was more equality but the pressing problems of crime and medicine shortages that people don't have as much patience as they did when this was in place and this is going to prove to be very difficult for me starting off a presidency. life in caracas thank you. well the venezuelan government has defended the results given nicolas maduro a six year you know washington for an audit of the ballots claiming it's

a necessary step given the tightness of the vote however independent election observer dr judy says there were no indications the vote was rigged. that was very it was transparent this is a fully automated voting process obviously this is a very very narrow victory for him adorable really to call into question the capacity in the technical feasibility of the voting system i think is very very unfortunate my immediate concern now is that if the united states does not recognize the election process here in the picture of moderate this is going to once again put venezuela and the united states on a very very strong bilateral clash is going to be even more problems going forward in that relationship spain i believe has come out and said that it's not had to recognize the victory at the moment again i think it's very unfortunate in some way responsible for these countries to be pronouncing so soon and we really need to see the order to this face and crisis before we should be making such diplomatic declarations. so what is next for venezuela you can make your forecast known on our web site r t v dot com let's see how our viewers are voting for this out from our

web site currently the majority over fifty percent now saying that well they're predicting a u.s. backed attempt to topple the should be state government and political chaos over twenty percent up to twenty three percent for the salad believing my daughter will manage to see through chavez is a socialist program skipping fourteen percent let's get down to the minimum of a nine percent now basically saying well they foresee social unrest and riots over the results the official saying though that a recount will not happen we'll have to see how it pans out what will follow them adieu to a victory let us know at r.t. dot com we are still taking your votes will still to come here on r.t. breaking broadcasting rules the u.k.'s house of lords says television you should no longer have to be impartial we found out why after the break also. it's just unclear to me it was exactly the staffers were thinking it's illegal to transfer them all let me check with their experts on this matter and see if i can get back to their specific cases of a number of a one time

a hunger strike is grows even pledges to shut the notorious prison and prevent state department officials getting a grilling more on that in a few moments. well . it's technology innovation all the developments from around russia. the future are covered.

international airport in the very heart of moscow. from moscow this is r.t. the u.s. military has confirmed more detainees at guantanamo bay prison have joined a hunger strike officially the number stands now at forty five lawyers though claim the figure is much higher thirteen of the captives are reportedly being force fed to prevent them from starving security guards fired non-lethal rounds at detainees

over the weekend and several resisted being put into single cells on monday federal judge declined to take action on behalf of a striking prisoner his attorneys said his life was in danger because of a lack of clean water and proper medical treatment officials in washington say there is still the commitment to shutting the camp despite legal hurdles and no plan for where to put the detainees earlier the u.s. state department's patrick ventrell was grilled on the issue. but we still have staff will continue to work on this account is it not the mr suspicion that you're that it's completely hit then that is. we'd be hamstrung by congress and trying to relocate these people so we essentially illegal right i think i did i said no i know but so why didn't i expressed my concern about wasting their time on this if it can't be done legally again the president's commitment to closing it continues and so while we have closed a special i was office we do have staff to continue to explore but why do they need to explore if they can if they can't be done if it can't be done without changing

the law i mean are they working on it by trying to convince lawmakers to lift some of the restrictions let me check in with our legal advisor staff overnight see if we can get your update if there are specific cases that we are able to work on given the restrictions on what we do as far as i can but i mean at least from this podium loose from this room i mean the last thing the last progress there was on this was you denying the russians permission to see the russian detained he. again so i just unclear to me i have it exactly the staff is working on if it's illegal to transfer them under the law let me check with our experts on this matter and see if i can get back if there are specific cases. you can find out how the guantanamo bay hunger strike has been unfolding on our website we've been following it since it first became public hearing from detainees lawyers activists and experts as well as showing videos from the facility all of that for you right now at ati dot com. you can broadcast as never tire of boasting about their fairness which is

guaranteed by regulations which demand impartiality however some influential voices believe that concept is outdated in the digital age and while they want the rules to be scrapped they explanation now to watch these twenty point. the way that newspapers and news channels are regulated in the u.k. is stossel any different so newspapers and online news portals they still regulate themselves that means that they can be as politically biased as they please the example being the guardian on the left in the u.k. or the london times on the right but for news channels it's a whole different story they're legally bound by often to be impartial and if they're deemed not to be they can be fined or even have their license revoked but in a day and age when the media is converging and news portals are looking more like television channels and television channels have their own websites is this regulation surely distinction fat and does it make sense well the lord's communication committee have

come out with a report recommending that the government removes the impartiality rules from nonpublic broadcast says i'm joined by lord richard inglewood who's the chairman of the lords communication committee to talk about this so if the way that the industry is regulated right now is outdated and the media you're saying news web sites that more and more like the channel that the channels have their news websites it's all converged is that impartiality for us to complete your city tonight not entirely no we firmly advocate that the public service book cost us in this country should be just to the exactly the same way as they do not they provide the benchmark the measure of impartiality how achievable is impartiality i know that right now there is the impartiality clause but nevertheless we have received biases from all the news channels that exist right now doesn't personality exist at all well it's a very slippery concepts you quite right to say but one of the advantages of

a plural media landscape is that different people will approach the question of impartiality from slightly different perspectives i don't think you can say impartiality means that there is one way of doing it which is the only. way but what impartiality does do is cut out the kind of political proselytizing but you're quite right in saying you find it quite a number of newspapers and in certain news providers from outside our jurisdiction if commercial us doesn't get that free rein to do what they like what about barbara well i mean the crucial point here is that in a world well i p t v is going to be the norm but relatively soon all this stuff is going to be streamed into into into people's houses if they want to watch it and that's the big question is would people want to watch there are some very basic rules that surround that very very basic and shows the matter is that's what the future's going to look like so it's all very well us being very pious here but the short answer is it's not going to stop it already you can get stuff off the internet from these other countries providing with extremely partial news thank you

very much for your comment well thank you very much for taking part in our into the r.t. world update now starting with a seven point eight magnitude earthquake in the iran pakistan border iran officials fear hundreds may have been killed pakistan's state media has confirmed five victims so far and tremors were felt all the way from across the gulf from dubai where buildings were evacuated all the way to new delhi where people are reported to have run out into the streets. syria's president bashar al assad has announced an amnesty for in prison rebels as part of national celebrations that will include the scrapping of death sentences according to the state news agency assad also ocean lebanon to put in place stricter border controls to protect civilians from clashes between hezbollah and syrian rebels. belgian police conducted forty six raids on islamist suspected of recruiting volunteers for

syria's rebel forces that number of people detained during the tuesday morning raid has not been made public among those placed under arrest was the leader of the extreme for belgium group eighty belgian citizens are now reported to be fighting against the government in syria. or police in bahrain have raided a boys' high school after the arrest of a sort of a student led clashes of the gulf nation is increasing security in preparation for this weekend's formula one race around one hundred people have been arrested this month alone kingdom has been wracked by more than two years of on the rest between the sunni led government and shia majority seeking greater political influence opposition member. he says international silence is making the situation worse all of this being in silence from then the national community and just. doing and giving sign of this is not something that just those things the

government general of the slowly with the big. security people who are controlling the political scene even and dragging the country into a more violent situation just amounts down this is what the elite and i think binding the formula one with on the principle just appointed. prime minister. that it is finally want to do something to catch up. this is an. the hardliners look at this hope and make it hard for the people living in the fight i don't think the christian thing that i value within the ruling family is not allowed thing that one feature will relieve her from it a quiet search and the hard liners are longer as they are controlling the political field and can follow their government they can find security not harmful for men.

this is r.t. and greece has unlocked or delayed rescue alone by reaching a deal with its international lenders the only went through after inspectors from the e.u. and i.m.f. completed their check on how athens is meeting the targets of the bailout by the way to the next tranche of financial aid worth eight point eight billion euros it's clear that the government will have to slash four thousand public sector jobs by the end of this year to get it unemployment has spiraled to around twenty seven percent in greece which is struggling to get out of a deep recession for its sixth year now artie's tom barton met workers from the country's crippled industrial sector. cobwebs outside rainfalls on the still and silent it's attackers plastic piping from tree infested lawn mickey northern greece inside the machines have been unused since banks stopped investing and the owner of the organ spits attack has fled in two thousand

and ten one of his workers also be old course did meet the i'm just one softer that he and ninety five of the staff seven million euros in wages at the aftershock talk i had to force myself to leave so i wouldn't hurt him workers see that they are being made to bear the cost of greece's economic woes this is the stuff and of course the. pain is. very unequal across the industrial northern greece the story is repeated this fertilizer factory used to be a center of northern greek industry nowadays though by economics fair all file it's a ghost factory and the only fertilizer coming in here is imported from elsewhere in europe it produced specialist fertilizers until one day the workers were called together and told by the owners that the know how for their products had been sold off and that operations would be stopped they all at the it's criminal very

profitable industry was shut down an industry that produced high quality material to me and the new man workers now see the cruel irony that since the factories closing fertilizer prices have tripled but it's a wider fear that one skilled workforce is a laid off it's all too hard to bring them back thermos in the path of those who have this but the unemployment rate here is thirty percent or by the years and it could be over thirty eight would know fission policy the situation is out of control yes he said he would move the court the workers across northern greece are desperate desperate to keep their jobs to get back into jobs and to be paid for their work it doesn't help ease their concerns when they're in positions like your glasses would be unemployed for three years and he's off skiing in switzerland tom otten. next term out here we explore the russian republic of chechnya and our

special. all know how lazy bureaucratic. trouville censorship strikes again but this time in russia a bill has been signed into law that will put fines on individuals and legal entities for using vulgar in the media one major flaw of many with this is that they really don't know which words are going to be considered vulgar i guess these words are so awful that they cannot even write them down i'm not naïve there has always been and will always be censorship but this where word list is just silly there is a common expression on the russian internet that russian mainstream media connects

up more and i is ation of society russian t.v. does have all the bloody violent action movies as well as scandalous talk shows which are kind of more like freak shows and plenty of reality t.v. where young people pretty much act like subhuman animals in a cage they've got all that so the government is basically saying that if some guy on t.v. because there are twenty people blooded limbs flying that that is totally ok for television unless they cannot forbid swear while doing it you can show brainless materialistic dimwits sleeping and fighting with everything that moves on a reality show but if they say that one magic three letter russian word then it is over the line this is not a logical way to conduct censorship but that's just my opinion. download the official publication. stream quality and

enjoy your favorites. if you're away from your television just doesn't matter with your mobile device you can watch on t.v. any time anyway. lives and works in grozny the capital of the chechen republic. the city had been reduced to ruins by years of war. chechnya two military operations to curb separatist militants and repel a clear danger from terrorist groups in the region. completely dead. fighting took place here the presidential palace was completely destroyed. around the place.